Collecting seeds from your own garden is a good idea. It saves you money and you already know what the plant will look like and how it will perform in your garden. The seed can be stored in ...

Just as I wrote last week about it’s time to divide perennials to get more plants and to rejuvenate the clump, plants are setting seeds with the coming of winter so it’s also time to collect seeds.

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The Nature Conservancy excels at native plant restoration and ecosystem stewardship on a landscape-wide scale. By creating, extending and conserving native habitat, they provide permanent and ...

What can be more fun than collecting seeds from some of your favorite flowers and vegetables to share with others or to store and plant for next year’s harvest and/or enjoyment. For centuries various ...

Seeds produced from these crosses will grow and offer such features as increased vigor, increased yields and better disease resistance. However, seed produced by crossing two hybrid plants in the ...

Q: Many of the flowers in my yard are starting to dry up and form seeds. Can I collect these and save them to plant next year? A: Yes you can collect and save many of the seed that grow in your yard ...

Collecting native seed can be labor intensive but it eventually pays for itself by creating even more seeds — for free.

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

Editor’s note: In October 2023, the project coordinator of the program described in this story, Dan Werk, was convicted of sexually abusing a minor enrolled in the program. High Country News will ...

Thousands of acres of burned trees that remain years after a wildfire raced through part of Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, New Mexico. AP With warmer temperatures, an increase in the ...

I started chasing down all 900 Korok seeds, convinced that it was a fool’s errand. I imagined the process as a Sisyphean task. All I would do was mindlessly collect seed after seed after seed after… ...